The first article of my PhD has been published! 🤩

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🔮 The single muscle fibres won the ”Best Group Costume” prize at @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social 🏆

During the week in between EMC and WMS, Jenni and Fanny visited the de Winter, Ottenheijm and Kirby labs at the Department of Physiology at Amsterdam UMC for an intro to single fibre mechanics and some interesting imaging techniques. 🇳🇱🔬 (1/2)

Greetings from the opening ceremony of the European Muscle Conference 2025! 🇳🇱 #EMC2025 #EuropeanMuscleConference

Our team is excited to connect - come find Jenni, Jaakko and Fanny at the European Muscle Conference. 🇳🇱 Let’s talk science, collaboration, and future ideas! 🧬🤝💡 #EMC2025 #EuropeanMuscleConference

Congrats to the best supervisor @laitilajenni.bsky.social ! Big achievement ♥️💪🏻🧬

Yesterday we had the first (but not last) Myofin Young Investigators Day! 🌟 The day was filled with great presentations from our young researchers and out-of-the-box questions from the audience. Thank you to Jenni, Veronica and Marco for organizing the event! 💙

Happy to have contributed a small part to this project! 🤩 @myofinlab.bsky.social

So proud of these two superstars and the entire Myofin group at the FHRC Scientific Days 💪🔬 Another well deserved poster prize for @rostedtfanny.bsky.social 🤩🙌 @myofinlab.bsky.social @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

We had the pleasure to attend the Scientific Days organized by @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social at Haikko. Fanny (single-fibre studies) and Milla (nanopore-sequencing) took part in the poster pitching session and had posters on display … (1/3)

#Lihastautipäivät2025 @folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social

Meet our group members! 🧬 ▫️ Vilma-Lotta Lehtokari (Docent), Senior scientist 📸 Picture 2: Robert Franko (1/7)

🧬 Meet our group members! 🧬 ▫️Marco Savarese (Docent), Group leader Marco got his PhD in Naples in 2014 and moved to Helsinki one year later. Since then, he has been working at the Folkhälsan Research Center. Over the last years, his research activity has addressed three key-challenges … (1/7)

Today is Rare Disease Day 💜

🚨Publication alert!🚨 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... First author Vilma-Lotta’s summary of the study: (1/4)

We are the Myofin Research Group, part of the Genetics Research Program at Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland. (1/6)